With new cases of COVID-19 plunging, San Francisco health officials announced that the city was moving into the state’s Red Tier, allowing struggling restaurants to offer indoor dining for the first time in months. (2/2/21)
“Is life so dear, or peaceful so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry, Speech at the Virginia Convention
“Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights, until every citizen shall be an Argus to espy, and an Aegeon to avenge, the unhallowed deed.” James Madison, Speech to Congress, 1792
“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever.” John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1775
I would be extremely excited if they vaccinated all teachers and essential workers in the city. Then that would be cause for reopening with proudness anything else puts all of us in danger.
